1. Denial
I’ll just create an image of my entire hard drive.
2. Bargaining
I’ll just leave this running and it will, um, speed, up, right? I’ll call apple and if i plead with them they’ll tell me secret tips like freezing the disk drive (which may or may not work, as ipods seize up when frozen.)
3. Anger
I will never trust a laptop again!
4. Acceptance
Maybe it’s not worth $500 to save some diary entries, my address book and a few scripts. Maybe I could just rewrite my scripts.
The moral of the story
Maybe it’s best not to do tech work for something you’re personally invested in. I should have asked for help sooner, rather than drunkenly trying to copy the whole thing. Try to save everything. end up with nothing. thank god i had enough sense to grab my school work first.
also, it’s amazing how invested i’ve gotten with an inanimate object. in the future i need to 1. do backups. 2, not entrust my sense of self to a machine. 3, use paper more often.
Tag: Celesteh
eeek. *patpatpats* now i see why you said doing the disk image was a mistake.
diary entries strike me as worth a lot of money, but maybe that’s just me.
damn, your computer woes suck.
hmm. who is goat? i love goats.
gosh clst, that sucks about the hard drive. i would care about a diary getting lost enough to spend a bunch of money. but who knows.
crappity crap crap crap.
🙁
paper can get lost easily and burn in a fire. i suppose a computer could also burn in a fire. you can entrust your sense of self to a machine, provided its a RAID 5 server.
ahh, the impermience of data…
ommmmmmmmmmmmmmm…..
ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…….
the more times i have hard drive crashes, the less stuff i try to keep.
buy a new hdd at http://buddherism.org
oh! but a cool thing to do for backup is get urself a gmail acct, then zip up a bunch of stuff u want to keep, give the zip file a decent (memorable) password (i have a system) then mail the zip file to your gmail acct. it’s good for a gig, anyway….